Nothing personal against Texas or Alabama. Fine places. But if we're going to be sentimentalists here, at least one of them must lose, right?Because if they don't, look what might happen to poor Joe Paterno. Penn State could go unbeaten and left out of the national championship hunt for the fifth time.

You're a major league pitcher and you want desperately for your arm to stay young. Your stretching regimen looks like it came from the Rockettes. All that effort to buy time, and the solution seems so simple.

It was supposed to be huge: A New York producer planned to lure 1 million people to 16 major college campuses and bring in at least $15 million with big-name acts on the eve of spring football scrimmages starting this week.